Sending an existing Global Mailbox message from a Connect:Direct server adapter SNODE

You can send an existing Global Mailbox message from a Connect:Direct® server adapter SNODE.

Before you begin

Knowledge of Connect:Direct protocol and business processes is required. For more information about the integration of Connect:Direct, see IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling Connect:Direct on IBM online documentation.

The user must be assigned a virtual root and permissions for the mailbox in the Global Mailbox.

About this task

The Connect:Direct server adapter allows Sterling B2B Integrator to act like a Sterling Connect:Direct server, sending and pulling data using the Sterling Connect:Direct protocol. The Connect:Direct server adapter enables you to use files from a Sterling Connect:Direct server in a Sterling B2B Integrator business process and to create business processes that exchange files with a Sterling Connect:Direct server.

You can also use the Connect:Direct server adapter SNODE to copy file directly from the Global Mailbox. Currently, the check point restart feature of the Connect:Direct protocol is supported for such transfers. If the sending of the file is interrupted, it is resumed from a previously check pointed location instead of starting the file transfer from the beginning.

The PNODE can be any supported Sterling Connect:Direct node on any supported platform. There is no indication to the PNODE that Global Mailbox is part of the exchange.

Procedure

To send an existing Global Mailbox message from a Connect:Direct server adapter SNODE, complete the following steps:

  1. Configure a Connect:Direct server adapter and specify the following value:

    Enable Global Mailbox = Yes

    Use this adapter as the SNODE in business processes to send files to the Global Mailbox.
  2. On the PNODE, specify the following value:
    RemoteFileName = /mailbox/filename

    If you are a z/OS® PNODE, doing a copy TO Global Mailbox on a z/OS system, the statement looks like this:

    TO (dsn='/mailbox/yourmailbox/yourfilename' DISP=RPL)